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When trees attack!
Massive falling branch strikes two homes in B’Heights
By Todd Maisel
Brooklyn Paper
A large tree branch
smashed into two historic
Brooklyn Heights houses
during a heavy rainstorm on
Wednesday morning, damaging
multiple windows and
railings.
The strong winds and
heavy rain caused the several
thousand-pound branch
to collapse into the windows
and wooden railings of the
two homes near Willow Street
around 10:30 am, according
to officials with the Fire Department.
One resident watched the
branch come down and devastated
his home, but said the situation
could have been much
worse.
Giant offi ce tower tops out
By Rose Adams
Brooklyn Paper
Business is at an all time
high!
Developers and architects
celebrated the topping off of
Brooklyn’s new tallest office
building with a tour of the
34-story skyscraper’s uppermost
floor, which offers
views of the Statue of Liberty,
Staten Island, Queens,
and beyond.
One Willoughby Square,
located in the heart of Downtown
Brooklyn between Albee
Square W. and Duffield Street,
will house 27 stories of lofty
office space — each between
12,000 to 14,500 square feet —
when construction wraps up
in fall of 2020. The building,
designed by FXCollaborative
and developed by JEMB Realty,
will combine contemporary
furnishings with an open,
loft-like feel, according to one
of its architects.
“We really wanted to create
something that’s a modern
loft,” said Dan Kaplan, a senior
partner at the architecture
firm, FXCollaborative.
At 495 feet tall, the Downtown
office tower is the highest
in Brooklyn for an exclusively
commercial building,
but One Willoughby Square
is only the 10th largest tower
overall within the borough,
where it’s edged out by the
512-feet-tall Williamsburg
Photo by Todd Maisel
A massive falling branch smashed into two historic
Brooklyn Heights homes, shattering windows and
damaging a wooden railing on Oct. 9.
Firefighters closed off
the scene to cut up the fallen
branch with a chainsaw and
one official said they expect
other trees might also lose
limbs.
The city’s Parks Department
previously pruned the
damaged tree, but apparently
didn’t notice the fallen
branch was rotting, according
to Polcri.
“They came to trim the tree
but maybe they didn’t see that
it was rotted in that part of the
tree,” he said.
Gusts of wind eclipsed
30 miles-per-hour during
the rainstorm on Wednesday,
according to a weather
mapping site , which forecasts
heavy rain thought the rest of
the week.
“Thank God nobody was
passing by when it fell,” said
Alesandro Polcri. “We had
some windows smashed, but
it looks like the roof is going
to be ok.”
Savings Bank and dwarfed by
Brooklyn Point, which at 712-
feet is Brooklyn’s tallest.
The building was designed
to achieve a factorylike
look with floor-to-ceiling
windows, exposed ceilings,
and an exterior lined with
rows of blue glazed brick as
a nod to Downtown Brooklyn’s
industrial past, according
to Kaplan.
“We wanted something
that felt like it belonged to
Brooklyn,” he said.
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